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Christo Silvia

@christosilvia.bsky.social

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Housing 🏘️, transit🚇, walking🚶‍♂️ and cycling 🚲 advocate in Woburn, MA, USA Car lite advocate, ebike owner Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast Vegetarian Senior RF Design Eng The opinions on this account do not represent my employer

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 1h

I hope they also have rooftop solar - I'd imagine that's much cheaper!

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 2h

Wow is that right array in a single plane? That's pretty big!

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 2h

This one will sorta look like that:

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 2h

I've seen a massive monolith array in Walpole

Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 2h

Does an array have multiple columns?

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 2h

Machines:

1. Pavement cutting tool.
2. Excavator.
3. Lull.
4. Lifts to assemble.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

okay but that would be pretty cool and important still

dib @dylanlamar.bsky.social · 7h

Have you lost your fucking mind? I don’t care if 100 millions shitlibs show up with “I’d rather be at brunch” signs to stand on street corners, it could NEVER begin to approach the notability, scale, and impact of the civil rights movement, you HACK

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 2h

We are here to work *with* our students to solve whatever puzzles their discipline presents. We build understanding *with* them. I have changed my views because of my students, they've changed theirs because of me.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 22h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3h

If anything, everything is worse (and stupider) than even I would have imagined. Again: not a surprise, but still constantly shocking.

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 7h

Headed out into the field. Josh printed out 3D maps of the region for reference. ⚒️

White 3D printed map showing a linear mountain range trending north / south and a little bump to its southwest, and then a lumpy mountain range to the south of both.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 3h

Every war in the last several centuries had been started by men. Women are righteous on Ukraine because it's self-defense against a rapacious fie. We understand the problem.

But I'm willing to play into his delusion and ask him to step outside and settle this like ladies.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 5h

But mr tucker, putin is not a girl

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h

Show boss personal project that’s been showing promise lately. Impressed, remarks something to the effect of “wish you were this good at your actual job”

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 3h

How does that compare to just the same area with a ground mount system that doesn't do double duty?

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 3h

For all of the solar carport components, it's about 65 cents/Wdc

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

legitimately it's hard for me to imagine having so little self-respect

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3h

It's genuinely so infuriating that the Trump gender is seen as the rational gender. We will be paying for this era of maladjusted man feelings for the rest of our lives, and you think they are cool and rational!?!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

legitimately it's hard for me to imagine having so little self-respect

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Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 3h

❗️We can already see that Moscow is rushing to resume dialogue; just hearing about the “Tomahawks,” and I’m already in Washington,” — Zelenskyy

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Yohannanx @yohannanx.bsky.social · 3h

La Guardia ran on the socialist line in several of his elections as well.

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 3h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 3h

Physics Paths

xkcd.com/3155/

Vertical comic structured like flow chart. (1) Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value. (2) I hope *I* have value. I’ll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check. (3) [Time Passes] (4) Oh no! My insight didn’t overturn physics! But I don’t think I’m worthless… [arrows to two different options] (5a) Healthy Path: Maybe this was not a well-thought-out test of my value. (5b) Path of Ruin: The establishment must be *suppressing* my insight!

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3h

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

A black-and-white illustration of a man riding a bicycle equipped with a typewriter. The man is wearing a hat and is seated on the bicycle, with his hands on the typewriter mounted in front of him. The text above the image reads "The Typewriter Cycle,"

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7h

This is so, so much like how small political or religious cults maintain in-group cohesion--by getting ppl to humiliate themselves in public and become ever more socially dependent on the ingroup in response.

WIRED @wired.com · 12h

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

wrd.cm

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 3h

digital media is dying not because it’s a bad way to cover the news or people don’t care about the news but because the people who now own these sites are increasingly 1) uninterested in covering the news as opposed to turning a profit 2) ignorant of what covering the news requires

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

Oh man, the guy who freaked out because he saw an unhoused person in the subway interviewing Mamdani. This will be good.

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 3h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 3h

As well as how the power wiring is done - it looks like it was trenched next to the footings and maybe conduit was laid?

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